Tuesday, 26 April 2016

I don’t know
about you but it seems Justin Trudeau has spent more time outside the
country than in it ever since the Liberals won the federal election back in
November of 2015 but I think it’s because Justin is so awesome and it's unfair to the whole of the world if Canadians hog that awesomeness all to themselves. You see, Justin is so
awesome that Canada is too vast, her audience too small to contain and bear
witness to the awesomeness that is Justin Trudeau. Justin knows this so almost immediately after
the Liberals won the election that terrible day back in November he embarked on
his “Justin Trudeau Is So Awesome” world tour because it would be a crime
against humanity to deny the people of the world the opportunity to bask in his
awesomeness. He is after all God’s gift
to Canada and Canada’s gift to the world.

I don’t believe he gives a damn about climate change. I think he’s using it as a platform to
champion with hopes it will net him a nod from Stockholm. It also feeds his messiah complex. It’s all about him really. Everything, be it the election, gender
equality, or climate change. It’s a
means to generate narcissistic supply for the narcissistic Prime Minister and
mine adoration from a sycophantic press and a fan base of half-wits.

Were he
truly concerned about climate change his party wouldn’t be so determined to
shovel more people into the country especially from nations with a lower carbon
footprint per capita than Canada. This
is because Canadians have one of the largest carbon footprints in the world. To put this in perspective, while China is
the biggest global producer of CO2 emissions it also has the largest population
in the world and broken down per capita Canadians are bigger producers of CO2 emissions than the Chinese. Yet
China is a top source of immigrants to Canada as is India and the
Philippines. Immigrants from these
countries, and elsewhere, increase their carbon footprint simply by moving to
Canada.

Canadians’
largecarbonfootprint may have to do with the fact that Canada is a northern
country with long, cold, dark winters and short hot summers. It’s a vast country with a relatively sparse
population. To stay warm during the
winters, cool in the summers, and to generally traverse its great expanse
requires the consumption of inordinate amount of resources. This may help explain why Canada is warming twice the global rate. Canada isn’t
suitable to hosting a large population.

Whether you
accept climate change is real or not is up to you. However Justin Trudeau has made it very clear
it’s very real and very important to him.
When the next election rolls around another one million more people
would have been imported into the country increasing their carbon footprint and
Canada’s as well. Allowing that, coupled
with his international playboy-esque jet setting, if climate change really
matters to Justin Trudeau he has a funny way of showing it.

Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Proponents
of mass immigration often point out how immigration contributes positively to increasing
the country’s GDP. While this may be
true it doesn’t provide a complete picture because GDP doesn’t measure the
overall standard of living or quality of life of a population.

A nation’s
GDP can increase while the quality of life of its citizens can stagnate even decline. For example an individual can
work twelve hour days, seven days a week and that will contribute to the GDP but not provide a very favourable lifestyle. However if this individual decided
to take a day off each week for leisurely pursuits then this wouldn’t be
recorded in GDP measurements since leisure isn’t measured but that leisure time would improve that individual's quality of life. And a life of constant work, especially at a
job that brings little fulfillment beyond financial need, with no time for
leisure is a life not worth living.

Let’s look
at the obvious fact that immigrants take up space. This means they drive up demand for housing. They also buy and drive cars. They also get sick and need to see a
doctor. They also need a job to pay for
all of this among other things. All of this
contributes to growing the GDP since their demand for goods and services is a
measurable activity when calculating GDP numbers.

However, by
driving up the demand for housing they also drive up the cost of living since the
suppliers of housing can increase prices.
This means more disposable income is going to housing instead of meeting other needs. They drive cars and clog up our already
clogged up highways and city streets causing greater commute times and lost productivity to say nothing of the pollution they create. When they get sick they fill up our emergency rooms
and hospitals giving Canada one of the worst wait times in the industrialized world. None of this is taken into
account in measuring the GDP. As for
incomes immigration has had little if any positive effect on income levels and
most likely helps to keep real incomes stagnant which means more money is going
to pay for your car you drive to your job to make an income to pay for the
increasing cost of living. As for
leisure time f**k that! Who has time for
that when you need to work all the time because you don’t make enough money at
your job because mass immigration has saturated the job market? That is if you can find a job that provides
an income you can live on. There are
also the negative effects on one’s mental and physical health due to urban sprawl and densification, the loss of green spaces and arable land, effects on
social cohesion, and so forth.

GDP is a dubious metric to begin. To be honest I'm suspect of Canada's GDP numbers since Canadians have to assume record levels of debt to maintain the illusion of prosperity. But saying mass
immigration contributes to positive GDP growth is a disarming tactic because it
implies that a growing GDP begets net benefits for the country and therefore the
entirety of Canadian society and who can be against that? But GDP is used to mask the quality of life diminishing
problems mass immigration creates. Indeed, while it’s arguable that immigration has contributed positively to
growing Canada’s GDP it can be equally argued, quite persuasively, that it has
negatively affected the quality of life for Canadians especially for us who
live in the nation’s largest cities. And since 30%, if not more, of Canada's GDP is composed of real estate and the service sector I'm cynical enough to believe mass immigration is being used to buoy Canada's otherwise weak economy the way China used rampant property development to inflate it's suspect GDP numbers.

An enterprising Sikh in B.C. at the time chartered a Japanese boat and sold passage to Canada to mostly fellow Sikhs back in the Punjab in British controlled India. They sailed to Canada after departing from Hong Kong and arrived in Vancouver harbour expecting to disembark and bhangra their way right into the country because f**k Canadian sovereignty. But the Canadian government wouldn't have it and so the Sikhs became restless and acted like violent retards. After a two month stand-off Canada said "f**k this sh*t" and sent the boat packing with an armed escort into international waters to arrive in India where it's passengers refused to acquiesce to demands by the British to disembark. And then they proceeded to act like violent retards. A riot ensued and the British said "f**k this sh*t" and opened fire. People died.

And it's our fault.

And we're sorry.

We're sorry we didn't let you break our laws and crash our borders because if we did then you wouldn't have acted like violent retards and got some people killed. Because acting like violent retards is kinda your thing but that's our fault too I guess. So what I'm trying to say is I'm sorry, I think, because it's our fault, or my fault, or something.

Hey, did anybody see my car? It's a white Volkswagon Tiguan with plates WHTGLT. I left it around 124th street and Old Yale Rd in Surrey, B.C.; in the Khalsa School parking lot to be precise. I left it there to go see a doctor about getting a refill on my medicine. If anybody finds it you know how to contact me.

There’s
much to write about the debacle that is Canada’s response to the Syrian refugee
situation and I may get around to publishing a post or two about it but I
wouldn’t be writing anything that hasn’t been said in the comments section of
the CBC new site or in the commentary of those who share the view that bringing
these people here and in such great numbers is a stupid idea. And referring to a past "success" is no guarantee of a repeated future outcome. With
that said I’m not too sure if I care to write much about the Syrians since it’s
the system I want to focus on and the Syrians are just the current benefactors in
a long line of past and future benefactors of our most dysfunctional and easily gameable asylum system.

I will say
this. It’s not really Canada’s response in the general sense, as in “we, the people”, but more so the response made by a
gaggle of people who occupy influential and privileged positions in the public
and private spheres whose inveterate need to virtue-signal compel them to
engage in actions that the rest of us will eventually have to pay for in one
form or another with no consideration on how we feel about the matter. From what I gather most of us are sick of
hearing about the Syrian refugees and can you blame us? It’s infuriating to see our political class,
from our civic leaders to our national representatives, foot-drag to address
more pressing local and national concerns yet can find the time and resources
to help foreigners in trouble especially when the cameras are rolling. Besides, is it really the best idea to bring
them here in the first place? Wouldn’t
the resources we’re spending to bring 50,000 Syrians (because the 25,000 the Liberals promised to dump into Canada pre-election didn’t piss us off enough it
seems) be better spent and aid more people if it was allocated directly to the
refugee camps? How is bringing in 50,000
Syrians going to positively affect the crisis they are fleeing aside from
making a few misguided Canadians feel good about themselves? It really does lack any rational consideration
but that’s par for the course. We expelled
logic and reason from shepherding the nation’s immigration policy a long time
ago and replaced them with compassion and political necessity as the
guiding lights which is why the system has become such an unmanageable
monstrous mess.

A key point
to take away from this is that private sponsors are only liable for up to one
year for the upkeep of their charge.
After that they become wards of the state if they haven’t become fully
self-reliant by then. The sponsors get
all the warm feelings and positive press while we, the public, eventually get
the joy of having to pay for it all.

Another key
point is that privately sponsored refugees are not wholly supported by their
sponsors. They are entitled to a bevy of publicly
funded benefits like dental and health care which their sponsors are not on the
hook for.

What’s
bothersome about this whole affair is how it was presented to the public as if
this was the only viable course of action when alternative options should have
been given considerable weight.
Pre-election the Conservative approach appeared to be the most reasonable enjoying healthy public support but our grand-standing left of center parties had
to double down on the lunacy and show how out of touch they are with those they want to govern by demanding Canada take an unpopular course of action particularly
when that unfortunate boy washed ashore on a Turkish beach. They capitalized on a terrible event to
pander to our emotions so as to present themselves to the public as the
compassionate choice and therefore the most fit to govern. The whole thing reeked of grandiose moral
exhibitionism for the sake of obtaining political capital.
And with the election of the Liberals, and thus making a world fame
chasing primadonna the national leader (and I use the word "leader" in the loosest sense possible), expect things to get much worse. So if you’re anything like me you may want to
remove all sharp objects from your home.
But if you want to keep them on hand for, you know, "reasons" then remember it’s down the road not across the
street.

Sunday, 3 April 2016

Apparently I wasn’t having a nightmare after all. The Liberals really did win the election back
in October, 2015 sending a very undeserving and a very vain and vapid man to
the PMO. I barely slept that night and
have slept very little since then only to recently awaken from my first bought
of prolonged sleep after knocking myself senseless from one too many
facepalms to the head thanks to the one too many times our allegedly objective and dispassionate national media swooned over the cringeworthy statements and deeds of our Tumblr-tier PM. Like, holy f**k!

So it looks
like it’s time to dust off the old blog and pick up from where I left off ‘cause
I don’t know how I’m going to handle the next few years without an
outlet to blow off some steam. While I
will concentrate on immigration as the main thrust of my writing I may go off
topic from time to time to comment on the attention getting, “Look at me everyone” antics of Pierre Trudeau’s spawn as well as the overall pathetic state of
Canadian politics and the mediocrities that pollute it.

I hate
blogging and I didn’t miss it but it’s only been five months since their
election victory and already the Liberals make me want to jump from the heights
of the CN Tower after ingesting two cyanide capsules for good measure. And they’re just getting started.